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UNITE STATES 'VPATENT OFFICE.

JOHN QCONOKLIN, OF PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO D.& D. F. TOMPKINS.

PICKAX.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 10,356, dated December 20, 1853.

To all whom it may concern: 7 I

Be it known that I, JOHN C. CONOKLIN, of Peekskill, in the county of Worcester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in PickaXes; and

by the arrows, and are shaped in such a manner as to form the braces seen in Fig. 1, I) 5, having circular apertures at their ends, through which is passed the bolt D, Fig. 1. (Instead of forming the braces b, b, by slit-ting, as above described, they may be firmly welded to the barv A, and extended up the handle sufficiently to receive the bolt D, as seen in Fig. 1.) Two loops 0, 0, Figs. 1

and 2,*are then formed and welded, one on each side of the main bar A and directly 'opposite to the space formed between the braces b, b, as seen in Fig. '1. The handle before beinginserted has a slot cut in its end, to refill the space formed by the loops 0, 0,-on either side of the said bar, and when driven home is firmly secured by means of the bolt D, passing through it and the ends of the said braces.

I do not claim as my invention the extending of the main barA, through the .center of the eye of r the pick-ax. Neither do I ceive the main bar A, and is so fitted as to claim the braces 6,7), which secure the handle; but

What I do claim as my-invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentis-. l

The combination of the said bar A, with the braces b, b, and the loops 0,.0, substan-' tially in the manner, and for the purposes herein set forth.

JOHN C. CONCKLIN. Witnesses:

SAML. W. HURD, A. N. GRIFFIN. 

